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E-Commerce 2021: Business. Technology. Society.: Sixteenth Edition
E-Commerce 2021: Business. Technology. Society.: Sixteenth Edition
Society.
Sixteenth Edition
Chapter 1
The Revolution Is Just
Beginning
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Learning Objectives
1.1 Understand why it is important to study e-commerce.
1.2 Define e-commerce, understand how e-commerce differs from e-
business, identify the primary technological building blocks underlying
e-commerce, and recognize major current themes in e-commerce.
1.3 Identify and describe the unique features of e-commerce
technology and discuss their business significance.
1.4 Describe the major types of e-commerce.
1.5 Understand the evolution of e-commerce from its early years to
today.
1.6 Describe the major themes underlying the study of e-commerce.
1.7 Identify the major academic disciplines contributing to e-commerce.
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Uber: The New Face of E-commerce?
• Class Discussion
– Have you used Uber or any other on-demand service
companies?
– What is the appeal of these companies for users and
providers?
– Are there any negative consequences to the
increased use of on-demand services like Uber and
Airbnb?
– How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted Uber and
other on-demand services?
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The First Thirty Seconds
• First two decades of e-commerce
– Just the beginning
– Rapid growth and change
• Technologies evolve at exponential rates
– Disruptive business change
– New opportunities
• Why study e-commerce
– Understand opportunities and risks
– Analyze e-commerce ideas, models, issues
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Introduction to E-commerce
• Use of Internet to transact business
– Includes Web, mobile browsers and apps
• More formally:
– Digitally enabled commercial transactions between
and among organizations and individuals
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The Difference Between E-commerce and
E-business
• E-business:
– Digital enabling of transactions and processes within
a firm, involving information systems under firm’s
control
– Does not include commercial transactions involving
an exchange of value across organizational
boundaries
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Technological Building Blocks
Underlying E-commerce
• Internet
• World Wide Web
– HTML
– Deep Web v s “surface” Web
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• Mobile platform
– Mobile apps
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Insight on Technology: Will Apps Make
the Web Irrelevant?
• Class Discussion
– What are the advantages and disadvantages of
apps, compared with websites, for mobile users?
– What are the benefits of apps for content owners
and creators?
– What are progressive web apps (PWAs) and how
do they differ from native apps?
– Will apps eventually make the Web irrelevant?
Why or why not?
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Major Trends in E-commerce
• Business trends include:
– Covid-19 pandemic fuels surge in retail e-commerce,
m-commerce, and certain on-demand services
• Technology trends include:
– Mobile platform and cloud computing
– Big data and Internet of Things
• Societal trends include:
– Increased concern about impact of social networks
– Concerns about increasing market dominance of big
technology firms
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Unique Features of E-commerce
Technology (1 of 2)
1. Ubiquity
2. Global reach
3. Universal standards
4. Information richness
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Unique Features of E-commerce
Technology (2 of 2)
5. Interactivity
6. Information density
7. Personalization/customization
8. Social technology
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Types of E-commerce
• Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
• Business-to-Business (B2B)
• Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)
• Mobile e-commerce (M-commerce)
• Social e-commerce
• Local e-commerce
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Figure 1.5 The Growth of B2C E-commerce
in the United States
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Figure 1.7 The Growth of B2B E-commerce
in the United States
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Figure 1.8 The Growth of M-commerce
in the United States
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E-commerce: A Brief History (1 of 4)
• Precursors
– Baxter Healthcare modem-based system (1970s)
– Order entry systems (1980s)
– Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards (1980s)
– French Minitel (1981)
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E-commerce: A Brief History (2 of 4)
• 1995–2000: Invention
– Sale of simple retail goods
– Limited bandwidth and media
– Euphoric visions of
Friction-free commerce
First-mover advantages
– Dot-com crash of 2000
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E-commerce: A Brief History (3 of 4)
• 2001–2006: Consolidation
– Emphasis on business-driven approach
– Traditional large firms expand presence
– Start-up financing shrinks
– More complex products and services sold
– Growth of search engine advertising
– Business web presences expand
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E-commerce: A Brief History (4 of 4)
• 2007–Present: Reinvention
– Rapid growth of:
Web 2.0, including online social networks
Mobile platform
Local commerce
On-demand service economy
– Entertainment content develops as source of
revenues
– Transformation of marketing
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Figure 1.10 Periods in the Development
of E-commerce
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Insight on Business: Y Combinator’s
Startup Boot Camp
• Class Discussion
– Why do you think investors today are still interested
in investing in startups?
– What are the benefits of investing in a company that
is a graduate of a Y Combinator boot camp?
– Is an incubator the best solution for startups to find
funding? Why or why not?
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Assessing E-commerce (1 of 2)
• Stunning technological success
• Early years a mixed business success
– Few early dot-coms have survived
– Online sales growing rapidly
• Many early visions not fulfilled
– Price dispersion
– Information asymmetry
– New intermediaries
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Assessing E-commerce (2 of 2)
• Other surprises
– Fast-follower advantages
– Start-up costs
– Impact of mobile platform
– Emergence of on-demand e-commerce
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Understanding E-commerce:
Organizing Themes
• Technology:
– Development and mastery of digital computing and
communications technology
• Business:
– New technologies present businesses with new ways
of organizing production and transacting business
• Society:
– Intellectual property, individual privacy, public welfare
policy
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Figure 1.11 The Internet and the
Evolution of Corporate Computing
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Insight on Society: Facebook and the
Age of Privacy
• Class discussion:
– Why are social networks interested in collecting user
information?
– What types of privacy invasion are described in the
case? Which is the most privacy-invading, and why?
– Was the FTC’s $5 billion fine and its placement of
new restrictions on Facebook’s business operations
sufficient in light of Facebook’s history with respect to
privacy violations?
– How do you protect your privacy online?
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Academic Disciplines Concerned with
Technology
• Technical
– Computer science, management science,
information systems
• Behavioral
– Information systems research, economics,
marketing, management, finance/accounting,
sociology
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Careers in E-commerce
• Position: Category specialist in E-commerce Retail
Program
• Qualification/Skills
• Preparing for the Interview
• Possible Interview Questions
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